Ages of rocks,plannets, and stars / Henry Faul

By: Series: earth and plannet seriesPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, c1966 .Description: xi, 109 p. : ill. ; 21 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
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CONTENTS

Chapter One Radio activity
Alpha decay
Beta decay
Electronic capture
Branching decay

Chapter Two Nuclear clocks
The decay clock
The accumulation clock

Chapter Three Limits and conditions of the accumulation clock
The original daughter nuclide
Argon
Strontium

Chapter Four Concordant,Discordant and mixed ages
Concordance
Discodance
Argon losses

Chapter Five Geological time scale
Layered volcanics
Bracketed instrusive
Simple Intrusives

Chapter Six Plumbology and the age of the earth
The simple model
The holmes-houstermans model

Chapter Seven The history of meteorites
Formation ages
Exposure ages

Chapter Eight Age of the star and galaxies
Stellar radiation
The age of gallaxies and the expanding universe

Includes bibliographical references and index

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